Dave Grohl Quotes
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When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It's inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.
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Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of the best and worst times of my life. But we're in this band, the Foo Fighters, making music for the love of music. We all came from bands that had disbanded, and we were drawn to each other because we missed playing - we missed getting in the van, loading our equipment, and watching it break down in the middle of a show. And that feeling hasn't gone away. There's nothing I'd rather do than make music. It's the love of my life.
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Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
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You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I've never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.
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The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.
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I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands.
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I'm not like a voracious hoarder who has 50,000 albums of vinyl stacked in a storage space in the San Fernando Valley. But I do have albums from the last 40 years of my life.
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My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.
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I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.
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I hate the solo artist aspect of rock-'n'-roll. I don't have enough personality or charisma to be a solo star.
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Mick Fleetwood was one of my first interviews. And if you've ever talked to that dude, he's the sweetest guy in the world - he's just a trip.
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When you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.
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From the time that 'Nevermind' came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.
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Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do. It's not about being perfect, it's not about sounding absolutely correct, it's not about what goes on in a computer. It's about what goes on in here [your heart] and what goes on in here [your head].
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I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school. Give me something to assemble, I won't look at the directions, I'll try to figure it out by myself. It's why I love Ikea furniture.
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I don't want to say that most rock bands live these formulaic biography existences - but they kinda do. There's always a divorce. There's always an OD. There's always a bad business manager.
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Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.
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The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.
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I'm not allergic to fashion. I'm just one of those people who when they put on a suit look like they're going to a funeral or to court.
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When I listen to the radio, I just hear so much music that doesn't even sound like people. The vocals are all tuned, and the drums are all fake.
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'In Utero' was the first time I'd made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear 'Pennyroyal Tea.'
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Dude, maybe not everyone loves 'Glee.' Me included. I watched 10 minutes and it wasn't my thing.
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It's funny, there aren't too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There's a few - the really brilliant ones.
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I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.